[Dilangfh]

Week and a half??? Toss it mate.

[jeargefef]

Stinking old meat and you want to eat it?

has the heat got to you, Oerdin?

[Oberjej]

I agree with alva.

Although I have to say that a year ago we had a meat scandal here in germany, where year old meat was traded to supermarkets and doener-snackbars an d got eaten by the people and AFAIK nobody died from eating it.
So you´d probably have a good chance to survive the chicken-chili. But better don´t try your luck

[Natashasuw]

If the smell isn't that bad, you should be fine. Start cooking it with just oil and salt; if the smell worsens, throw it away. If it stays the same or improve, go on with your recipe.

[PPActionnGuys]

Another question. If the meat is thoroughly cooked would it still be a health danger (assuming it's off) or would it just taste bad?

[emuffette]

Play the e-coli/salmonella poker game and see.


If you still have the guts for it that is...

[denSmumbSes]

And the advice I gave you was that of a piss poor student; if you can afford to throw it away, why don't you do it?

[bawayTeen]

I wonder if I can feed a bit of it to my dog and see if he gets sick or not. Ah, hell. I'll just ritually dump it in the garbage disposal.

[7kitthuptarill]

but it wont kill ya I wouldn't be too sure about that.

[oxixernibioge]

Come to think of it I should probably throw out the milk too.

[KitRittyTug]

Just stick the chicken in your scrumpy.

[Yarikoff]

Worst conversation I ever witnessed was when I was visiting a friend and his roommake came out of the kitchen:

Roommate: Is eggnog supposed to have chunks?
Friend: Uh, no.
Roommate: Oh, OK. It was good anyway.

[Ikhqgvas]

If you would have bought it fresh and wrapped in vaccum, then a week and a half might have been acceptable. Don't forget that while the proces - KH just described - slows down alot in the freezer, it doesn't come to a halt completely.

[StevenS]

Originally posted by alva
If you would have bought it fresh and wrapped in vaccum, then a week and a half might have been acceptable. Don't forget that while the proces - KH just described - slows down alot in the freezer, it doesn't come to a halt completely. The process KH describes completely halts in the freezer even though it immediately resumes after thawing. Frozen organisms don't metabolize.

On the other hand, there tends to be plenty of these nasties on chicken products to begin with and by the end of a week and a half in the fridge that can be more than enough toxins to seriously sicken anybody.

[Bbjhjxfy]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I wonder if I can feed a bit of it to my dog and see if he gets sick or not. Ah, hell. I'll just ritually dump it in the garbage disposal. Dogs can tollerate more than most humans.

[Jalieteplalry]

chocolate

[Honealals]

You guys are a bunch of wimps. No reason to play with your health if you've got the $$$.

[Fegemiembendy]

Originally posted by VJ

No reason to play with your health if you've got the $$$. This is why Europeans and American go to the third world and end up on the toilet half the time. The human body can fight off plenty of things. Chicken kept for a week in a cool refrigerator is not going to be bad all of a sudden, specially if it comes from having been frozen. I mean, were the hell would the bactertia be coming from?? One assumes freezing killed any that were in the chicken before, and it is sealed pretty well, so were are these pathogens coming from? I mean, is the chicken creating life from nothing?

[theatadug]

Eh. Chicken is cheap. If it was an expensive cut of beef I would say to risk it...

[yasmin]

oh god i can feel my stomache hurting now man can u guys say salomanella from rotten poultry.

God never mess around with poultry or pork
beef is a bit more forgiving so to speak. but i wouldnt chance not even to my dog